At Anniston Academy, we believe some of the most meaningful learning doesn’t happen at a desk. It happens while digging in the dirt, collecting leaves, watching an insect crawl across a log, balancing on a rock, splashing through a muddy puddle, building something out of sticks, or simply having the freedom to explore. Art on the grass Nature Is a Classroom, Too Children learn through movement, curiosity, experimentation, and play. The outdoors naturally provides opportunitie

Caley Peyton reading to students at Anniston Academy. At Anniston Academy, we believe some of the best learning happens when students have opportunities to connect what they are learning to the people, careers, and world around them. That is exactly why our Community Helper and Hobbyist Program is such an important part of the Anniston experience. Recently, we were excited to welcome Caley Peyton, Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Tennessee Forestry Association, to A

At Anniston Academy, we believe being committed to our students means being willing to make changes when something is not serving them as well as it could. Last year, we used Singapore Math. There were parts of the program we valued, particularly its visual models, manipulatives, and concrete-to-pictorial-to-abstract approach. Those strategies helped many students develop a stronger conceptual understanding of math, and we will continue using them when they benefit our studen